GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Land Degradation, Natural Disaster, Ethnic Cleansing
11 Dec 2017
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Lecture 4 - geog 101 | nancy worth. Migration vs mobility: migration = permanent relocation, usually long distance, can be international or domestic/internal, mobility = the capacity to move from one place to another, either permanently or temporarily. Measuring migration gross migration: total # of people that leave and enter a country (province, region: out-migration: the total # of people who leave a country (emigration) In-migration: the total # of people who arrive in a country (immigration: net migration: the difference (enter minus leave) Mobility and migration is both voluntary and forced. Categorizing migration: push and pull factors, economic, education, escaping hardship, natural disaster, environmental damage, degree of choice (freedom) Land degradation: natural hazards, rising sea levels, pollution, climate change, degree of choice, forced/involuntary, war (leave or die) Natural disaster: reluctant relocation, war (risk of death) Ethnic cleansing: people forced out of country because of their culture (uganda)
